01 september 2017

The year was 2009. Amid a climate of investor cynicism, disappointment and self-examination, two papers were published that would fundamentally change the way that the investment industry viewed active equity management.

• Equity

Lees meer: Will the ‘Real Active Managers’ Please Stand Up?

01 september 2017

The resurgence of investor appetite for emerging markets is proving to be the most significant allocation trend of 2017, at least according to bfinance data on new mandates.

• Fees
• ESG
• Equity
• Emerging Markets

Lees meer: Emerging Market Equity and the ESG Challenge

01 mei 2017

Investors' costs have never been more vigilantly scrutinised than they are today. New bfinance data published in investment Management Fees: New Savings, New Challenges (May 2017) reveals falling fees in several sectors, especially where providers have been under pressure from cheaper competitors or the investment landscape has evolved.

• Fees
• Diversifying Strategies
• Hedge Funds

Lees meer: Fund of Hedge Funds Cut Fees to Regain Lost Ground

01 april 2017

Unitranche debt / loans, which increasingly dominate European private debt funds and also play a key role in the US market, were only invented a decade ago. GE and Allied Capital (later Ares) teamed up to offer a single-tranche of lending where the first-out position was provided by GE and the second-out by Allied. The borrower received one set of pricing and one loan agreement: for them it was more expensive but simpler and, importantly, enabled greater leverage

• Private Markets
• Private Debt

Lees meer: Unitranche Debt - Why Does the Evolution Matter?